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I wanted to immediately shout, "now THIS is something SJ would be rolling in his grave over." However, in the mid 2000s he was a big believer in switching to In
by jarjoura 12y ago
I wanted to immediately shout, "now THIS is something SJ would be rolling in his grave over." However, in the mid 2000s he was a big believer in switching to Intel and even though I found it hard to believe a company that pushed PowerPC for so long was suddenly so willing to join "the dark side" at the time.
His Intel switch bet played off for Apple and I imagine this bet by Tim Cook will also play out for them. I look forward to having many more years of iOS work and many more years of Xcode and iOS SDK improvements :-). Stability and security will be at the top of the lists :-D
- Osmium 12y ago> I wanted to immediately shout, "now THIS is something SJ would be rolling in his grave over." Don't forget the HP-branded iPods too, which was also a bit weird. That was under Steve too.
- raverbashing 12y agoRockr phone
- sjwright 12y agoThe ROKR might well be the worst thing Steve ever showed in any of his keynotes. It was comedy awful.
- uptown 12y agoThe Apple Hifi must be a close-second.
- mortenjorck 12y agoThe Hifi was hardly awful. It was just... a startlingly average product to merit a Steve Jobs unveiling.
- ihnorton 12y agoSeems like it made sense at the time [1]: > Thanks to HP's distribution network, the iPod+HP was sold in retailers where Apple did not have any presence at the time, which included Wal-Mart, RadioShack, and Office Depot. Many of these retailers now sell Apple iPods. In hindsight, the subsequent sales explosion makes it look unnecessary [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod+HP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod+HP [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales
- mpweiher 12y ago"In 1989, IBM signed a deal with NeXT to license NeXTstep to run on Big Blue's RISC chip. But Jobs now says that while a long-term relationship with IBM will move forward, "it's no secret that the project to put NeXT software on the IBM RS/6000 has broken down." -- http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdPartyHardware/NeXTSTEPonNonNeXTComputers/NeXTSTEPonNonNeXTComputers.html http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...
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- whyenot 12y agoWhy would he be rolling in his grave? When Steve Jobs returned to Apple his laptop of choice was an IBM Thinkpad (560E). In fact, "he delivered it to Apple’s designers as a model of where the PowerBook line needed to go." http://applefool.com/applefool/IBM_ThinkPad_560E.html http://applefool.com/applefool/IBM_ThinkPad_560E.html
- sjwright 12y agoThere have been numerous instances of IBM and Apple working together in the past. The AIM alliance (PowerPC) and Taligent immediately come to mind.
- cmollis 12y agoTaligent!.. holy crap I'm old.